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A Novel Use of Light Guides and Wavelength Shifting Plates for the Detection of Scintillation Photons in Large Liquid Argon Detectors

Scintillation light generated as charged particles traverse large liquid argon detectors adds valuable information to studies of weakly-interacting particles. This paper uses both laboratory measurements and cosmic ray data from the Blanche…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-07-05 B. Howard , S. Mufson , D. Whittington , B. Adams , B. Baugh , J. R. Jordan , J. Karty , C. T. Macias , A. Pla-Dalmau

Experimental study of the positive ion feedback from gas to liquid in a dual-phase argon chamber and measurement of the ion mobility in argon gas

The dynamics of the positive ions created by particle interactions inside argon time projection chambers plays an important role in characterizing the next generation of massive detectors planned for the direct search for dark matter and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-02-22 Luciano Romero , Roberto Santorelli , Edgar Sánchez García , Thorsten Lux , Michael Leyton , Silvestro di Luise , Pablo García Abia , Rodrigo López Manzano , José Manuel Cela-Ruiz , Sebastián Quizhpi , Vicente Pesudo

Scintillation light production, propagation, and detection in the 4-ton dual-phase LAr-TPC demonstrator (data analysis and simulations)

The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) Far Detector (FD) will be formed by four 10-kton Liquid Argon (LAr) Time Projection Chambers (TPC) using both single and dual-phase technology. The dual-phase technology foreseen the charge…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-11-19 Chiara Lastoria

Anode-Coupled Readout for Light Collection in Liquid Argon TPCs

This paper will discuss a new method of signal read-out from photon detectors in ultra-large, underground liquid argon time projection chambers. In this design, the signal from the light collection system is coupled via capacitive plates to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-04-13 Z. Moss , M. Toups , L. Bugel , G. H. Collin , J. M. Conrad

Benchmarking TPB-coated Light Guides for Liquid Argon TPC Light Detection Systems

Scintillation light from liquid argon is produced at 128 nm and thus must be shifted to visible wavelengths in light detection systems used for Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers (LArTPCs). To date, designs have employed tetraphenyl…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-03-04 B. Baptista , L. Bugel , C. Chiu , J. M. Conrad , C. M. Ignarra , B. J. P. Jones , T. Katori , S. Mufson

Performance of the ReD TPC, a novel double-phase LAr detector with Silicon Photomultiplier Readout

A double-phase argon Time Projection Chamber (TPC), with an active mass of 185 g, has been designed and constructed for the Recoil Directionality (ReD) experiment. The aim of the ReD project is to investigate the directional sensitivity of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-11-19 P. Agnes , S. Albergo , I. Albuquerque , M. Arba , M. Ave , A. Boiano , W. M. Bonivento , B. Bottino , S. Bussino , M. Cadeddu , A. Caminata , N. Canci , G. Cappello , M. Caravati , M. Cariello , S. Castellano , S. Catalanotti , V. Cataudella , R. Cereseto , R. Cesarano , C. Cicalò , G. Covone , A. de Candia , G. De Filippis , G. De Rosa , S. Davini , C. Dionisi , G. Dolganov , G. Fiorillo , D. Franco , G. K. Giovanetti , C. Galbiati , M. Gulino , V. Ippolito , N. Kemmerich , I. Kochanek , G. Korga , M. Kuss , M. La Commara , L. La Delfa , M. Leyton , X. Li , M. Lissia , S. M. Mari , C. J. Martoff , V. Masone , G. Matteucci , P. Musico , V. Oleynikov , M. Pallavicini , L. Pandola , A. Razeto , M. Rescigno , J. Rode , N. Rossi , D. Sablone , S. Sanfilippo , E. Scapparone , A. Sosa , Y. Suvorov , G. Testera , A. Tricomi , M. Tuveri , M. Wada , H. Wang , Y. Wang , S. Westerdale

AVOLAR. A high voltage generator for liquid argon time projection chambers

Some of the main neutrino oscillation and dark matter experiments have chosen time projection chambers (TPC) filled with liquid argon (LAr) as their technology for the next generation of detectors. Because of its typical drift length of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-06-17 L. Romero , J. M. Cela , E. Sanchez Garcia , M. Daniel , M. de Prado

Scintillation and optical properties of xenon-doped liquid argon

Liquid argon (LAr) is a common choice as detection medium in particle physics and rare-event searches. Challenges of LAr scintillation light detection include its short emission wavelength, long scintillation time and short attenuation…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-01-26 C. Vogl , M. Schwarz , X. Stribl , J. Grießing , P. Krause , S. Schönert

Performance of different photocathode materials in a liquid argon purity monitor

Purity monitor devices are increasingly used in noble gas time projection chambers to measure the lifetime of drifting electrons. Purity monitors work by emitting electrons from a photocathode material via the photoelectric effect. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-09-18 Laura Manenti , Linda Cremonesi , Francesco Arneodo , Anastasia Basharina-Freshville , Mario Campanelli , Anna Holin , Ryan Nichol , Ruben Saakyan

Surface background suppression in liquid argon dark matter detectors using a newly discovered time component of tetraphenyl-butadiene scintillation

Decays of radioisotopes on inner detector surfaces can pose a major background concern for the direct detection of dark matter. While these backgrounds are conventionally mitigated with position cuts, these cuts reduce the exposure of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-04-10 Chris Stanford , Shawn Westerdale , Jingke Xu , Frank Calaprice

Enhanced Reconstruction of Sub-GeV Neutrinos Charged Current Interactions in LArTPC

This paper presents a comprehensive study of the reconstruction of sub-GeV neutrino charged-current interactions within a Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC). We demonstrate that traditional charge-based calorimetry is…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-04-24 Stone Chou , Sanskar Jain , Wei Shi , Ciro Riccio

The Argon Dark Matter Experiment

The ArDM experiment, a 1 ton liquid argon TPC/Calorimeter, is designed for the detection of dark matter particles which can scatter off the spinless argon nucleus, producing nuclear recoils. These events will be discerned by their light to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-03-26 Christian Regenfus

Study of nuclear recoils in liquid argon with monoenergetic neutrons

For the development of liquid argon dark matter detectors we assembled a setup in the laboratory to scatter neutrons on a small liquid argon target. The neutrons are produced mono-energetically (E_kin=2.45 MeV) by nuclear fusion in a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-12 C. Regenfus , Y. Allkofer , C. Amsler , W. Creus , A. Ferella , J. Rochet , M. Walter

Study of visible-light emission in pure and methane-doped liquid argon

In liquid argon TPCs for dark matter search and neutrino detection experiments, primary scintillation light is used as a prompt signal of particle scattering, being intensively produced in the vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) due to excimer…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-09-09 A. Bondar , E. Borisova , A. Buzulutskov , E. Frolov , V. Nosov , V. Oleynikov , A. Sokolov

A study of events with photoelectric emission in the DarkSide-50 liquid argon Time Projection Chamber

Finding unequivocal evidence of dark matter interactions in a particle detector is a major objective of physics research. Liquid argon time projection chambers offer a path to probe Weakly Interacting Massive Particles scattering cross…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-11-30 50 Collaboration , P. Agnes , I. F. M. Albuquerque , T. Alexander , A. K. Alton , M. Ave , H. O. Back , G. Batignani , K. Biery , V. Bocci , W. M. Bonivento , B. Bottino , S. Bussino , M. Cadeddu , M. Cadoni , F. Calaprice , A. Caminata , N. Canci , M. Caravati , M. Cariello , M. Carlini , M. Carpinelli , S. Catalanotti , V. Cataudella , P. Cavalcante , S. Cavuoti , A. Chepurnov , C. Cicalo , A. G. Cocco , G. Covone , D. D'Angelo , S. Davini , A. De Candia , S. De Cecco , G. De Filippis , G. De Rosa , A. V. Derbin , A. Devoto , M. D'Incecco , C. Dionisi , F. Dordei , M. Downing , D. D'Urso , G. Fiorillo , D. Franco , F. Gabriele , C. Galbiati , C. Ghiano , C. Giganti , G. K. Giovanetti , O. Gorchakov , A. M. Goretti , A. Grobov , M. Gromov , M. Guan , Y. Guardincerri , M. Gulino , B. R. Hackett , K. Herner , B. Hosseini , F. Hubaut , E. V. Hungerford , An. Ianni , V. Ippolito , K. Keeter , C. L. Kendziora , I. Kochanek , D. Korablev , G. Korga , A. Kubankin , M. Kuss , M. La Commara , M. Lai , X. Li , M. Lissia , G. Longo , I. N. Machulin , L. P. Mapelli , S. M. Mari , J. Maricic , C. J. Martoff , A. Messina , P. D. Meyers , R. Milincic , M. Morrocchi , V. N. Muratova , P. Musico , A. Navrer Agasson , A. O. Nozdrina , A. Oleinik , F. Ortica , L. Pagani , M. Pallavicini , L. Pandola , E. Pantic , E. Paoloni , K. Pelczar , N. Pelliccia , E. Picciau , A. Pocar , S. Pordes , S. S. Poudel , P. Pralavorio , F. Ragusa , M. Razeti , A. Razeto , A. L. Renshaw , M. Rescigno , J. Rode , A. Romani , D. Sablone , O. Samoylov , W. Sands , S. Sanfilippo , C. Savarese , B. Schlitzer , D. A. Semenov , A. Shchagin , A. Sheshukov , M. D. Skorokhvatov , O. Smirnov , A. Sotnikov , S. Stracka , Y. Suvorov , R. Tartaglia , G. Testera , A. Tonazzo , E. V. Unzhakov , A. Vishneva , R. B. Vogelaar , M. Wada , H. Wang , Y. Wang , S. Westerdale , Ma. M. Wojcik , X. Xiao , C. Yang , G. Zuzel

The GAP-TPC

Several experiments have been conducted worldwide, with the goal of observing low-energy nuclear recoils induced by WIMPs scattering off target nuclei in ultra-sensitive, low-background detectors. In the last few decades noble liquid…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-03-23 B. Rossi , A. Anastasio , A. Boiano , S. Catalanotti , A. G. Cocco , G. Covone , P. Di Meo , G. Longo , A. Vanzanella , S. Walker , H. Wang , Y. Wang , G. Fiorillo

LArIAT: Liquid Argon In A Testbeam

Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers (LArTPCs) are ideal detectors for precision neutrino physics. These detectors, when located deep underground, can also be used for measurements of proton decay, and astrophysical neutrinos. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-07-01 J. Paley , D. Gastler , E. Kearns , R. Linehan , R. Patterson , W. Foremen , J. Ho , D. Schmitz , R. Johnson , J. St. John , R. Acciarri , P. Adamson , M. Backfish , W. Badgett , B. Baller , A. Hahn , D. Jensen , T. Junk , M. Kirby , T. Kobilarcik , P. Kryczynski , H. Lippincott , A. Marchionni , K. Nishikawa , J. Raaf , E. Ramberg , B. Rebel , M. Stancari , G. Zeller , M. Wascko , T. Maruyama , E. Iwai , S. Kunori , C. Mauger , F. Blaszczyk , W. Metcalf , A. Olivier , M. Tzanov , J. Evans , P. Guzowski , C. Bromberg , D. Edmunds , D. Shooltz , R. Gran , A. Habig , K. Kaess , S. Dytman , J. Asaadi , M. Soderberg , J. Esquivel , A. Farbin , S. Park , J. Yu , J. Huang , K. Lang , R. Nichol , A. Holin , J. Thomas , M. Kordosky , M. Stephens , P. Vahle , B. T. Fleming , F. Cavanna , E. Church , E. Gramellini , O. Palamara , A. Szelc

Design and construction of a new detector to measure ultra-low radioactive-isotope contamination of argon

Large liquid argon detectors offer one of the best avenues for the detection of galactic weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) via their scattering on atomic nuclei. The liquid argon target allows exquisite discrimination between…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-22 The DarkSide Collaboration , C. E. Aalseth , S. Abdelhakim , F. Acerbi , P. Agnes , R. Ajaj , I. F. M. Albuquerque , T. Alexander , A. Alici , A. K. Alton , P. Amaudruz , F. Ameli , J. Anstey , P. Antonioli , M. Arba , S. Arcelli , R. Ardito , I. J. Arnquist , P. Arpaia , D. M. Asner , A. Asunskis , M. Ave , H. O. Back , A. Barrado Olmedo , G. Batignani , M. G. Bisogni , V. Bocci , A. Bondar , G. Bonfini , W. Bonivento , E. Borisova , B. Bottino , M. G. Boulay , R. Bunker , S. Bussino , A. Buzulutskov , M. Cadeddu , M. Cadoni , A. Caminata , N. Canci , A. Candela , C. Cantini , M. Caravati , M. Cariello , F. Carnesecchi , M. Carpinelli , A. Castellani , P. Castello , S. Catalanotti , V. Cataudella , P. Cavalcante , D. Cavazza , S. Cavuoti , S. Cebrian , J. M. Cela Ruiz , B. Celano , R. Cereseto , W. Cheng , A. Chepurnov , C. Cicalò , L. Cifarelli , M. Citterio , A. G. Cocco , V. Cocco , M. Colocci , L. Consiglio , F. Cossio , G. Covone , P. Crivelli , I. D'Antone , M. D'Incecco , D. D'Urso , M. D. Da Rocha Rolo , O. Dadoun , M. Daniel , S. Davini , A. De Candia , S. De Cecco , M. De Deo , A. De Falco , G. De Filippis , D. De Gruttola , G. De Guido , G. De Rosa , G. Dellacasa , P. Demontis , S. DePaquale , A. V. Derbin , A. Devoto , F. Di Eusanio , L. Di Noto , G. Di Pietro , P. Di Stefano , C. Dionisi , G. Dolganov , F. Dordei , M. Downing , F. Edalatfar , A. Empl , M. Fernandez Diaz , A. Ferri , C. Filip , G. Fiorillo , K. Fomenko , A. Franceschi , D. Franco , G. E. Froudakis , F. Gabriele , A. Gabrieli , C. Galbiati , P. Garcia Abia , D. Gascón Fora , A. Gendotti , C. Ghiano , A. Ghisi , S. Giagu , P. Giampa , R. A. Giampaolo , C. Giganti , M. A. Giorgi , G. K. Giovanetti , M. L. Gligan , A. Gola , O. Gorchakov , M. Grab , R. Graciani Diaz , F. Granato , M. Grassi , J. W. Grate , G. Y. Grigoriev , A. Grobov , M. Gromov , M. Guan , M. B. B. Guerra , M. Guerzoni , M. Gulino , R. K. Haaland , B. R. Hackett , A. Hallin , B. Harrop , E. W. Hoppe , S. Horikawa , B. Hosseini , F. Hubaut , P. Humble , E. V. Hungerford , An. Ianni , A. Ilyasov , V. Ippolito , C. Jillings , K. Keeter , C. L. Kendziora , S. Kim , I. Kochanek , K. Kondo , G. Kopp , D. Korablev , G. Korga , A. Kubankin , R. Kugathasan , M. Kuss , M. Kuźniak , M. La Commara , L. La Delfa , M. Lai , S. Langrock , M. Lebois , B. Lehnert , N. Levashko , X. Li , Q. Liqiang , M. Lissia , G. U. Lodi , G. Longo , R. López Manzano , R. Lussana , L. Luzzi , A. A. Machado , I. N. Machulin , A. Mandarano , L. Mapelli , M. Marcante , A. Margotti , S. M. Mari , M. Mariani , J. Maricic , M. Marinelli , D. Marras , M. Martínez , J. J. Martínez Morales , A. D. Martinez Rojas , C. J. Martoff , M. Mascia , J. Mason , A. Masoni , A. Mazzi , A. B. McDonald , A. Messina , P. D. Meyers , T. Miletic , R. Milincic , A. Moggi , S. Moioli , J. Monroe , M. Morrocchi , T. Mroz , W. Mu , V. N. Muratova , S. Murphy , C. Muscas , P. Musico , R. Nania , T. Napolitano , A. Navrer Agasson , M. Nessi , I. Nikulin , A. Oleinik , V. Oleynikov , M. Orsini , F. Ortica , L. Pagani , M. Pallavicini , S. Palmas , L. Pandola , E. Pantic , E. Paoloni , G. Paternoster , V. Pavletcov , F. Pazzona , S. Peeters , P. A. Pegoraro , K. Pelczar , L. A. Pellegrini , C. Pellegrino , N. Pelliccia , F. Perotti , V. Pesudo , E. Picciau , C. Piemonte , F. Pietropaolo , A. Pocar , T. Pollman , D. Portaluppi , S. S. Poudel , P. Pralavorio , D. Price , B. Radics , F. Raffaelli , F. Ragusa , M. Razeti , A. Razeto , V. Regazzoni , C. Regenfus , A. L. Renshaw , S. Rescia , M. Rescigno , F. Retiere , L. P. Rignanese , A. Rivetti , A. Romani , L. Romero , N. Rossi , A. Rubbia , D. Sablone , P. Sala , P. Salatino , O. Samoylov , E. Sánchez García , S. Sanfilippo , M. Sant , D. Santone , R. Santorelli , C. Savarese , E. Scapparone , B. Schlitzer , G. Scioli , E. Segreto , A. Seifert , D. A. Semenov , A. Shchagin , A. Sheshukov , S. Siddhanta , M. Simeone , P. N. Singh , P. Skensved , M. D. Skorokhvatov , O. Smirnov , G. Sobrero , A. Sokolov , A. Sotnikov , R. Stainforth , A. Steri , S. Stracka , V. Strickland , G. B. Suffritti , S. Sulis , Y. Suvorov , A. M. Szelc , R. Tartaglia , G. Testera , T. Thorpe , A. Tonazzo , A. Tosi , M. Tuveri , E. V. Unzhakov , G. Usai , A. Vacca , E. Vázquez-Jáuregui , M. Verducci , T. Viant , S. Viel , F. Villa , A. Vishneva , R. B. Vogelaar , M. Wada , J. Wahl , J. J. Walding , H. Wang , Y. Wang , S. Westerdale , R. J. Wheadon , R. Williams , J. Wilson , Marcin Wojcik , Mariusz Wojcik , S. Wu , X. Xiao , C. Yang , Z. Ye , M. Zuffa , G. Zuzel

Properties for liquid argon scintillation for dark matter searches

The scintillation yield for recoil Ar ions of 5 to 250 keV energy in liquid argon have been evaluated for direct dark matter searches. Lindhard theory is taken for estimating nuclear quenching. A theoretical model based on a biexcitonic…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-03-15 Akira Hitachi , A. Mozumder

A new, very massive modular Liquid Argon Imaging Chamber to detect low energy off-axis neutrinos from the CNGS beam. (Project MODULAr)

The paper is considering an opportunity for the CERN/GranSasso (CNGS) neutrino complex, concurrent time-wise with T2K and NOvA, to search for theta_13 oscillations and CP violation. Compared with large water Cherenkov (T2K) and fine grained…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 B. Baibussinov , M. Baldo Ceolin , G. Battistoni , P. Benetti , A. Borio , E. Calligarich , M. Cambiaghi , F. Cavanna , S. Centro , A. G. Cocco , R. Dolfini , A. Gigli Berzolari , C. Farnese , A. Fava , A. Ferrari , G. Fiorillo , D. Gibin , A. Guglielmi , G. Mannocchi , F. Mauri , A. Menegolli , G. Meng , C. Montanari , O. Palamara , L. Periale , A. Piazzoli , P. Picchi , F. Pietropaolo , A. Rappoldi , G. L. Raselli , C. Rubbia , P. Sala , G. Satta , F. Varanini , S. Ventura , C. Vignoli